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From: David Malone <dwmalone@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: kern/33978: can't kill process
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The following reply was made to PR kern/33978; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Malone <dwmalone@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>
To: Gerard Kok <gerard@software-improvers.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/33978: can't kill process
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:21:43 +0000

 On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:04:05AM -0800, Gerard Kok wrote:
 > Sometimes one of the child-processes of cups enters some sort of
 > endless loop, and there is no way to kill it, not even with kill -9.
 > This is extremely awkward, since this process keeps the printerport
 > open, so effectively printing is down.
 
 Can you have a look at the process with top and tell us what
 state the process is in? Thanks,
 
 	David.

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